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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

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Why the National Security State Relishes our being Trolled by Muslim Radicals

Why the National Security State Relishes our being Trolled by Muslim Radicals

By Tom Engelhardt | Tomdispatch.com) | – – Honestly, I don’t know whether to rant or weep, neither of which are usual impulses for me.  […]

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Did Daesh/ ISIL’s Paris attacks bolster al-Assad?  Spain calls him ‘lesser of evils’

Did Daesh/ ISIL’s Paris attacks bolster al-Assad? Spain calls him ‘lesser of evils’

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Spanish foreign minister José Manuel García Margallo said Wednesday in the course of a television interview: […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Sowing fear of Refugees is playing into ISIL's Hands: HRW

Sowing fear of Refugees is playing into ISIL’s Hands: HRW

Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – Governments should not allow the recent attacks in Paris and similar mass casualty attacks elsewhere to […]

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Barack Obama
Obama: GOP afraid of little Syrian Girls; Cruz: 'You want a piece of me?'

Obama: GOP afraid of little Syrian Girls; Cruz: ‘You want a piece of me?’

John Iadarola and Elliot Hill | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “President Obama is speaking out against Republican politicians and members of the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu for War Crimes in Spain, South Africa

Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu for War Crimes in Spain, South Africa

IMEMC | – – South Africa issued, on Tuesday, an arrest warrant against four Israeli officials over their role in deadly attacks on pro-Palestinian international […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Grand Alliance against ISIL:  Can Putin come in from the Cold?

Grand Alliance against ISIL: Can Putin come in from the Cold?

By Brian Whitmore | ( RFE/RL ) | – – He wasn’t ostracized. He wasn’t isolated. And certainly nobody threatened to shirtfront him. In the […]

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Barack Obama
A New Yalta?  Can France Craft an alliance of Putin & Obama against Daesh/ISIL?

A New Yalta? Can France Craft an alliance of Putin & Obama against Daesh/ISIL?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French President Francois Hollande is seeking a new relationship with Russia after the attacks on Paris […]

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Iraq War
2003:  Iraqi Governors who did not want Americans in their Country

2003: Iraqi Governors who did not want Americans in their Country

“Could we have a prudent pause?”

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Obama to Hawks:  You can’t Occupy all the Countries in the Middle East

Obama to Hawks: You can’t Occupy all the Countries in the Middle East

By John Hickman | (Informed Comment) | – – There was something very reassuring about President Obama’s delivery of a carefully reasoned explanation for his […]

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